# Aconitum Napellus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  the  Monkshood  plant  (Aconitum  napellus ),  a  perennial  herb  in  the. Ranunculaceae family. Traditional  Context:  A cornerstone  remedy  in  homeopathy  for  acute  conditions  with  sudden. onset,  intense  symptoms,  and  marked  fear or anxiety .  It  is  classically  used  for  complaints. triggered by  cold, dry wind , such as high fevers, acute respiratory infections, or cardiovascular. distress, often with restlessness and a sense of impending doom. Modern Context : Indicated for  hyperacute inflammatory or autonomic responses  with rapid. onset, often following environmental or emotional stressors. It is relevant for early-stage infections,. acute  cardiovascular  events,  or  panic  attacks  characterized  by  intense  physiological  and. psychological symptoms.
COMMENTS - Aconite is a tall, upright plant that has dark blue flowers, 4-5 feet tall. Aeon, grows in the damp 
and covered parts of almost every mountainous country in north or middle of Europe, especially in Switzerland, 
Germany and Sweden. It grows in high altitudes where there is a lot of wind, storms and activity.  It is a very 
poisonous herb, vinegar in large doses is antidotal to the toxic effects. Aconite in potencies above the 4c is a 
perfectly safe medicine for any age. 
Before Hahnemann's time Aconite had a reputation as a sudorific and in cases of rheu matism, sciatica and 
tumors, but it was not until Hahnemann proved it that its properties  were really understood. Aconite was the 
remedy by means of which Hahnemann was able to meet most of the conditions, which in his day were treated 
by bloodletting. 
Dr. Hughes has remarked that the condi tion to which Aeon, is homeopathic is one of tension. Emotional and 
mental tension, as shown in fright or fear and its consequences, anxiety and fear of death, tension of the 
systemic vessels, as in the effects of a chill. 
Asiatic cholera and hemorrhages. Muscular tension, as in tetanus. Tension of involuntary muscles, as in heart 
spasms. Tension of the semi-involuntary muscular apparatus of respiration, as in asthma. 
Hahnemann described it as a tempest, Kent, too. This is the idea of the remedy, it’s a storm that has a sudden 
 
 
onset and a sudden dissipation. Keynote sudden onset, a major trigger for this is shocking f right. Violent 
reactions to fright or weather conditions. 
Teste related a remarkable case of an Englishman who had been obliged to take a long sleigh journey in North 
Russia in midwinter. He suffered thereafter for two years from violent paroxysms of palpi tations and acute 
stitching pains in the heart region, threatening brain strokes. 
Aneurysm had been diagnosed by leading physicians in England and on the Continent. Teste localized the 
affection to neurosis or spasm of the pectoralis major muscle and prove d his diagnosis by promptly curing it 
with Aeon. 
Chill and fever. Fevers with restlessness and tossing about, often accompanied with anxiety that sometimes 
leads to fear of death. Aeon, can ward off serious results from chill, fright, injury or surgical op eration. 
It was the feverish restlessness of the Aeon, provings that led Hahnemann to infer its similarity to fever states. 
It is the presence of this restlessness, anxiety, fear and exalted sensibility that are its leading indications in 
cases of all kinds. 
High fevers, sudden surges of body temperature. Inflammatory fevers (Bell, is also inflammatory, Pyrog. and 
Bapt. are septic). Fevers with wakefulness, anxiety, red and flushed. 
“Clean” and functional fevers, no tissue changes, no mucus, no toxic symptoms. Can have thirst with the fever. 
The skin is dry and hot. 
The four keynotes are fear, fright, fast, and fevers. It's a remedy for a lot of fears (Ars.) and any acute problems. 
Fright followed by speechlessness or shaky trembling speech, shaking of the h ands and limbs, dilated pupils, 
and the patient may be frozen with fear and shaking. 
Panic with shaking and trembling. Frail, faint, and anxious. Sudden surges of adrena line through the body 
leading to shaking, trembling, fear, panic. Panic attacks with n umbness and tingling of fingers or down the 
arms, in the extremities. Attacks with feeling of anxiety, heart palpitations, fainting. Fear, not that they're going 
to die (Ars.), but that they're dying right now.  Conditions after fright. Hypersensitivity af ter a near death 
situation. Fright leading to shock and panic. Fainting and heart attacks where the main feature is fear.  
Fear and apprehension. Dread of crossing streets. Fear of the dark, fear of ghosts. Good for agoraphobia, fear 
of going outside of the house. They have chronic fears of fatal disasters, fear that something will happen, that 
they can't go out of the house because they will get into an accident. 
The senses are heightened with sensitive ness to pain and a feeling of numbness in parts. Sensa tion as if 
bound tightly in the limbs and in other parts (Cact.). Plethora may be classed under increased blood tension. 
Active, bloody congestions of all kinds, especially those following a chill.  
Intolerance to music. Patients may imagine some part of bo dy is deformed, imagine they do all their thinking 
from the stomach and predict the hour of their death. They sometimes go so far as to predict the day and hour 
of death (clairvoyance). Extreme sensitiveness to light and sound and all sensations.  
Extreme s ensitivity to pain (Cham., Coff.). Pains are intolerable, driving to desperation. Tearing, cutting, 
burning, sharp, stabbing pains, with restlessness, accompanied by numbness, tingling or formication.  
Cannot bear the pain, cannot bear to be touched, cannot  bear to be covered. Burning pains (Phos.). Feel the 
blood rushing every where. The child or the person screams with pain. Pain causes fright, specifically from 
heart attack or any acute pain. Frozen from the pain and what that pain means.  
Bending double relieves the colic and dysmenorrhea pain (Coloc.). Motion ag gravates the pains in muscles, 
joints and stiffness. There is a great and sudden sinking of strength, fainting on attempting to get up, with 
anxiety, restlessness, numbness, tingling, formication. 
Hemorrhage and shock due to sudden hemorrhaging of bright blood, causing giddiness, faintness, panic 
(Aeon.. Bell., Phos.). Active hemorrhages in stout, full - blooded people. Passes almost pure blood in stool. In 
hemoptysis the blood comes up with great ease by hemming and coughing, bright red in large quantities from 
cold, dry winds. Bleeding with great fear, anxiety and palpitations. 
Toothaches are one -sided with red cheek on same side. Severe toothaches where the teeth are sensitive, 
painful and the person is in a panic. 
Inflammations of the eyes from cold, injury, foreign objects, dust, surgical operations, scrofulous inflammation 
with enlarged glands. Blindness. 
Hirsch of Prague recorded two such cases, one in a man of thirty who went to bed well, hav ing walked home 
in rough and stormy weather after spending the evening in a hot room. Aeon. 3c was given and the following 
night he perspired freely and in the morning his sight was restored. 
Hirsch himself suddenly lost his sight while bathing in hot weather. He took Aeon. 3c in water as he had given 
it to his patient. In two hours he began to perspire and after a six-hours' sleep awoke well. 
Every inspiration increases the cough. Tingling sensation in the chest after cough ing. Unquenchable thirst, 
everything tastes bitter except water (Chin.). In croup, the child grasps the throat with every coughing fit. Dry, 
 
 
hacking cough especially from being exposed to a dry, cold wind 
Worse exposed to hot weather or cold weather. Coldn ess, numbness and tingling characterize the paralyzes 
and neuroses. Facial paralysis from exposure to cold, dry winds. Sunstroke. Diarrhea from heat and sun 
exposure. 
Headaches caused by exposure to the sun, also heat rashes. Headaches are generally better  in open air, 
worse in warm room, toothache and cough worse in open air. Bet ter from uncovering, the bed is intolerable. 
Worse chill with fever. Sweat on affected or covered parts. 
After exposure to cold, croup, severe colds and respiratory problems, bron chitis, infants get pneumonia, and 
it can go to facial paralysis. Worse cold, dry wind, sudden onset, numbness and tingling of the limbs all 
keynotes of Aconite. Chills with ailments. Asthma from exposure to cold, dry weather that brings out panic, 
worse around midnight. Earaches from exposure to cold and wind. 
In general, for croup, heart attacks, acute bronchitis and colds, and tonsillitis. Sometimes strep throat. First aid 
for fright. Infantile pneumonia with sudden onset. Childhood diseases with fevers and restlessness, meningitis. 
Retention of the urine, especially in newborn infants. 
Generally aggravated at night, particularly about midnight.
Temperature - Cold stage most marked. Coldness and heat alternate. Evening chilliness soon after going to 
bed. Cold waves pass through him. Chills down back. Chill passes through him in waves. Chill or coldness 
alternating with heat. Chilly if uncovered or touched. Shivering ascends from feet to chest. Dry burning heat in 
eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover. High fevers. Dry burning heat, red face. Fevers 
with mental anguish, restlessness. Thirst and restlessness. Colic, forces to bend double, yet no position relieves. Wind colic after taking cold. Hot, tense, 
tympanitic. Sensitive to touch. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region. Hot 
distended. Incarcerated hernia with bilious vomiting. Burning and cutting pains in intestines. Intestines as if 
paralyzed, inactive, worse about transverse colon. Loins as if b ruised. Burning pain in umbilical region. 
 
 
Umbilical region hard, swollen. Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly. Lively sensation of hunger, renewed soon after eating. 
No appetite, loathing of food, qualmishness. Aversion to tobacco. Better warm soup. Better wine. Anxiety better 
cold drinks. Desires beer, wine.  Desires brandy, bitter drinks. Worse after iced cold drinks. Milk disagrees. 
Intense thirst. Thirst for cold water. Thirst burning, unquenchable, during all stages of fever . Thirst for 
beer during fever. Thirsty during labor. Everything tastes bitter, except water.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold, dry wind; nighttime (especially midnight); noise; touch; emotional. shock.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Acute panic attacks with intense fear (e.g., fear of death, doom).
- Hypervigilance, agitation, or inability to relax.
- Aconitum napellus (Monkshood) 8.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, worse on rising  (Nux-v.
- Op.), and shaking head.
- Vertigo on ris ing from bed.
- Vertigo on 
getting up from one's seat.
- Vertigo on stooping or moving.
- Sensation of intoxication or dizziness i n the head, 
loss of consciousness.
- Vertigo with inclination to fall to right side.
- Vertigo with nausea and vanishing of sight.
- Vertigo from fright, anger.
- Vertigo after a shock.
- Vertigo from heat of sun.
- Vision - Dim vision or vision entirely lost.
- Lost vision after fright or shock.
- Optical illusions in dark colors or 
black.
- Flicker- ings make him anxious, fears he might touch people passing by.
- Total blindness after catching 
cold.
- Sparks, with burning and twitching in eyes.
- Obscuration of vision, when shak ing head.
- Black spots and 
mist before the eyes.

### Head
- Fullness, pulsating.
- Hot, heavy, bursting sensation.
- Burning, undulating sensation.
- Head excessively 
hot.
- Congestive headaches.
- Intercranial pressure (Hed .).
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by 
boiling water (Indg.).
- Violent squeezing or bursting pain in forehead.
- Pulsation in forehead.
- Sensation on vertex 
as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
- Meningitis.
- Brain affecti ons of children.
- Formication of scalp better heat.
- Scalp sensitive to touch.
- Scalp sensitive to cold air, strong wind.
- Sunstroke 
from sleeping in rays of sun.
- Fullness, pulsating.
- Hot, heavy, bursting sensation.
- Burning, undulating sensation.
- Head excessively 
hot.
- Congestive headaches.
- Intercranial pressure (Hed .).
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by 
boiling water (Indg.).
- Violent squeezing or bursting pain in forehead.
- Pulsation in forehead.
- Sensation on vertex 
as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
- Meningitis.
- Brain affecti ons of children.
- Formication of scalp better heat.
- Scalp sensitive to touch.
- Scalp sensitive to cold air, strong wind.
- Sunstroke 
from sleeping in rays of sun.

### Eyes
- Red, inflamed.
- Bloodshot.
- Pain and inflammation after surgery.
- Injuries to eyes.
- Conjunctivitis.
- Inflammation from foreign bodies, dust, cinders.
- Ingrowing eyelashes.
- Eyes glitter, stare, watery.
- Eyes feels 
dry and hot.
- Shooting pain in eyeballs.
- Sensation as if sand in eyes.
- Swelling of the eyes.
- Eyelids swollen, 
hard and red.
- Aversion to light.
- Can't bear reflection of sun from snow.
- Profuse watering fromreflection of 
snow.
- Profuse lachrymation after exposure to dry, cold winds.
- Asthenopia from strain ing eyes.
- Pupils 
contracted then dilated.

### Ears
- Otitis media.
- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen (Bell.).
- Earache with pain (Bell., Cham.).
- Tickling 
and sharp pain in the ears.
- Tingling and buzzing in the ears.
- Sensation as if drop of water in left ear.
- Ringing, 
humming or roaring noises.
- Sensitive to noises, music is unbearable.
- Left ear deaf, with buzzing in whole 
head.

### Face
- Anxious expression.
- Hippocratic.
- Face red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- Pale alternating with red.
- Burning, 
lips and tongue, as after eating pepper or smoking.
- Lips black, dry, peeling off.
- One cheek red hot other  pale 
and cold (Cham., Ip.).
- Neuralgia, especially on left side with restlessness.
- Tingling, cheeks and numbness.
- Tingling and numbness.
- Heavy feeling of the whole face.
- Sweat on side of face lain on.
- On rising, the red 
face becomes deathly pale.
- Jaw, pain.

### Mouth
- Breath cold, in cholera.
- Breath hot.
- Orifices of salivary ducts sore, as if cor roded.
- Accumulation of 
water in mouth.
- Sali va generally diminished.
- Saliva frothy, streaked red, sweetish.
- Trembling and temporary 
stammering.
- Nose - Frequent sneezing.
- Coryza, much sneezing, throbbing in nostrils.
- Coryza with headache, roaring in 
ears, fever, sleeplessness.
- Hot water runs from nos e.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Hemorrhage of bright red blood.
- Mucus membrane dry.
- Posterior nares as if dry.
- Nose stopped up, dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
- Numbness with nosebleed.
- Nosebleed, bright red blood.
- Smell acutely sensitive.
- Perspiration - Bad effects from suppressed sweat.
- Profuse sweat, wants to uncover.
- Sweat on uncovered 
parts or affected parts.
- Sweat on parts lain on.
- Cold or sour sweat.
- Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
- Drenching sweats.
- Profuse sweat with copious flow of urine and diarrhea.

### Throat
- Acute inflammation of the  throat with high fever.
- Dark redness of throat.
- Chokes on swallowing, 
talking.
- Tingling in the esophagus.
- Burning and stinging pains.
- Stinging pain in throat when swal lowing.
- Scraping, tingling sensation of strangling, burning and pricking in the throat.
- Red, dry, constricted.
- Numbness 
and prickling.
- Sensation of contraction in the throat.
- Inability to swallow, with hoarseness.
- Hoarseness with 
pain when talking.
- Hoarseness after speaking or singing.
- Voice husky, can scarcely speak.
- Croup with fever.
- Croaking voice.
- Laryngitis with fever.
- Larynx very sensitive.
- Uvula as if elongated.
- Tonsillitis.
- Tonsils dark red.
- Tonsils swollen and dry.
- Tongue - Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.
- Tongue feels as if swollen.
- Tongue coated white (Ant-c.).
- Tongue 
coated thick yellow white.
- Tongue swollen.
- Tongue tip tingles.
- Middle of tongue as if dry and numb.
- Sensation 
as if cold air passing over tongue.
- Tongue dry, red on sides, centre thinly coated white.
- Tongue red and dry.

### Chest
- Early-stage acute respiratory infections (e.g., influenza, croup) with dry, barking.
- cough or laryngeal constriction.
- Dyspnea or chest tightness in acute inflammatory states.
- Palpitations, tachycardia, or acute hypertensive episodes, often stress-induced.
- Sensation of chest oppression or impending cardiovascular collapse.
- Breasts - Mastitis.
- Milk fever with delirium.
- Increase of milk in breast.
- Breasts hot.
- Milk scanty.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pressure in stomach with dyspnea.
- Burning from stomach to esophagus.
- Tension in stomach better 
eructations.
- Painful hiccough.
- Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.
- Projectile vomi ting.
- Drinks, 
vomits and declares he will die.
- Vomiting of clear water, on sitting up.
- Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse 
sweat and increased urina tion.
- Hematemesis.
- Vomiting, bilious, mucus and bloody, greenish.
- Vomiting of 
lumbrici.
- Stools - Bilious diar rhea of infants with colic.
- Diarrhea from getting wet.
- Slimy stools alternating with 
constipation.
- Claycolored stools.
- Involuntary stools, on passing flatus.
- White stools with red urine.
- Stools of 
pure blood.
- Slimy, grass green or white stools, worse hot days and cold nights.
- Green stools like chopped 
herbs.
- Frequent, small stool with tenesmus.
- Dysentery.
- Watery diarrhea in children on hot days, restless and 
sleepless.
- Teeth - Toothache from cold or dry, cold winds.
- Teeth sensitive to cold.
- Toothache in sound teeth.
- Throbbing 
in teeth and head.
- Grinding of the teeth.
- Gums hot and inflamed.
- Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
- Sensation as if teeth would fall out.
- Cold feeling in incisors.

### Urinary & Genital
- Bladder - Cystitis.
- Burning pain in urethra.
- Hematuria.
- Urethral chill.
- Urine suppressed, bloody.
- Anxiety always 
on beginning to urinate.
- Urination painful, difficult, drop by drop.
- Retention with screaming and restlessness 
and handling of genitals.
- Retention or sup pression of urine in newborn due to cold exposure.
- Retention of 
urine after childbirth.
- Splashing sensation in region of bladder, during urination.
- Tenesmus and burning at 
neck of bladder.
- Crawling and stinging in glans penis.
- Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.
- Bruised pain in testicles, 
swollen, hard.
- Stinging and crawling in glan s.
- Scrotum drawn up.
- Skin of left side of scrotum studded with 
minute vesicles, with a humid discharge.
- Frequent erections and emissions.
- Painful erections.
- Sexual desire 
decreased, with relaxed parts, tingling in parts.
- Fits of lasciviousness.
- Emissions e ven after sex.
- Dysmenorrhea has to bend double, but better in no position.
- Menses too profuse.
- Menses with 
nosebleed.
- Menses too protracted, late.
- Frenzy, fury on ap pearance of menses.
- Amenorrhea during puberty.
- Suppressed menses from fright, cold.
- Ovaritis from sudden checked men strual flow.
- Ovaries congested 
and painful.
- Impending miscarriage from fright or vexation.
- Active uterine hemorrhage.
- Sharp, shooting 
pains in uterus.
- Prolapsed uterus.
- Labor-pains violent.
- After-pains with fear and restlessness.
- Suppressed 
lochia.
- Leucorrhea copious, tenacious, yellowish.
- Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.

### Extremities
- Sudden, sharp, neuralgic pains, often in extremities, aggravated by cold.

### Neck & Back
- Chilliness and formication down back.
- Numb, stiff, painful.
- Numbness in lumbar region.
- Crawling and 
tingling, as if bruised.
- Stiffness in nape of neck.
- Pain in the back, preve nts taking deep inspiration.
- Bruised 
pain between shoulders and in sacrum.
- Burning, shooting pain in spine.
- Sharp pain between scapulae, on 
deep breathing.
- Slightest touch of spine causes spasms.
- Spinal meningitis after injury or checked sweat.

### Skin
- High fever (39–40°C) with dry, hot skin, chills, and rapid pulse (tachycardia).
- Generalized restlessness and sensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., noise, touch).

### Sleep
- Starting up in sleep.
- Sleeplessness with restless and tossing about.
- Sleeplessness caused by fear, 
fright or anxiety.
- Sleeplessness with fear of the future.
- Nightly ravings.
- Insomnia of the elderly.
- Children cry 
and complain, sleepless and restless (Ars., Cham.).
- Spasmodic yawning.
- Nightmares.
- Anxious dreams.
- Dreams caused by fear, fright or anxiety.
- Long dreams with  anxiety in chest.
- Vivid dreams of day's 
occurrences.